Theory of electric dipole spin resonance in quantum dots: Mean field theory with Gaussian fluctuations and beyond

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 78, Issue 19, 2008, Pages

  Rashba, Emmanuel I ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 56349137299     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.78.195302     Document Type: Article

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